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This module provides support for Unix shell-style wildcards, which are not the
same as regular expressions (which are documented in the re module). The
special characters used in shell-style wildcards are:

Pattern

Meaning

*

matches everything

?

matches any single character

[seq]

matches any character in seq

[!seq]

matches any character not in seq

For a literal match, wrap the meta-characters in brackets.
For example, '[?]' matches the character '?'.

Note that the filename separator ('/' on Unix) is not special to this
module. See module glob for pathname expansion (glob uses
fnmatch() to match pathname segments). Similarly, filenames starting with
a period are not special for this module, and are matched by the * and ?
patterns.

Test whether the filename string matches the pattern string, returning
True or False. If the operating system is case-insensitive,
then both parameters will be normalized to all lower- or upper-case before
the comparison is performed. fnmatchcase() can be used to perform a
case-sensitive comparison, regardless of whether that’s standard for the
operating system.

This example will print all file names in the current directory with the
extension .txt: